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Stanford Accelerator Uncovers Archimedes' Text

Posted by timothy on from the 2-quarts-olive-oil-1-bunch-grapes-goat-milk dept.

AI Playground points to a Newsday.com report which reads in part "A particle accelerator is being used to reveal the long-lost writings of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, work hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote over it in the Middle Ages. Highly focused X-rays produced at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were used last week to begin deciphering the parts of the 174-page text that have not yet been revealed."

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  1. Re:Translating now... hold on.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yeah, because we all know Archimedes was talking ROMAN.

    *rolls eyes*

  2. Re:Translating now... hold on.... by Spheroid2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Archimedes was Greek. Duh.

  3. Re:Translating now... hold on.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Nobody gives a shit. It's a joke.

  4. Re:Translating now... hold on.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    that is funny on sooo many levels, this man should be made king of /. for a day.